Post by Boomer Chick on Jul 10, 2004 21:42:01 GMT -5
One book that influenced me greatly, other than the Bible, was the Urantia Book. I started reading it in 1974 -- seriously. You can read it online or buy the book in paperback, now, in most any bookstore.
You know, I just don't want to tell you about it as it would take too much time! But if you do choose to read a bit on the link, start with Parts 2 and 3 rather than begin reading at the beginning. It's so very complicated at the beginning as it tries to relay the function and meaning of God and the various hierarchies!
www.ubook.org/upapers/ubtoc.html
The I Ching entered my life around the same time as the U Book and the wisdom in that Book of Changes added to my understanding of the subconscious and symbolism.
And of course other books influenced me after that! Ruth Montgomery's series literally fell into my life when I was meandering in a used bookstore in the late 80's. And with that, came a Seth book.
Readings on UFO's influenced me as well, like Communion by Whitley Streiber and his next two, alien abduction studies by John Mack, and a couple of others. I need to get Bud Hopkins's latest!
The most impact, since reading the U Book, however, was the consuming of NDE books and studies! Bettie Eadie, Dannion Brinkley, and Dr. Melvin Morse and others really opened a spiritual/psychic window for me, too!
I read about angels! 3 books!
I read about psychics and read their books! Rosemary Altea, James Van Praag and Sylvia Browne truly impressed me with their interpretations of life and the after life. Recently read Dr. Gary Schwartz The Afterlife Experiments and that was impressive, too.
And Robert Peralta's book The Divine Architect was a great summing-it-all-up kind of recent read.
Along the way, I studied English and American literature, which always stimulates philosophy as well.
And how could I forget, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet and the Dalai Lama's Ethics for a New Millennium?
Read a book on the Dead Sea Scrolls and one on the Nag Hammadi scrolls, too. And of course, Gary Zukov came unto the scene, too!
When the net came into being, I was off and running again reading more on each subject and then finding the truth about so many other areas as well!
I also used to read OMNI magazine and was always interested in science, from a layperson's point of view, but I did study Anatomy and Physiology in college at one point -- worked on a cadaver, too. Also have a small Celestron telescope and at one time joined the local astronomy club! My Dh and I actually SAW the moons of Saturn on our little telescope one summer night a couple of year's back! The moons of Jupiter and nebula are easy, but the moons of Saturn were a real treat!
So it seems, you just can't learn about EVERYTHING in one lifetime, does it?
My mind was curious and still is, as we all travel together in these intense times!
Of course we can read books and put them down. Or we can read books and process them, make them ours, compare them to other truths, sift the truths from all of them and integrate all of the truths in one big cosmology! I have found it easy to integrate many of these various truths within my mind and heart. I don't know why it was so easy, but it is. I know a gal who has read many of the same books I have read, but she didn't learn anything from them. Somehow, the knowledge, the wisdom, did not sink in, the philosophies didn't "take" and she still roams, addicted to other substances besides truth. I just noticed, that's all, not judging, but "seeing" and it's all OK. I ask, when I read, that my spirit and my mind process in order to discern and retain that which is for the highest good and for my edification and thus for those around me.
Peace and love,
BC
You know, I just don't want to tell you about it as it would take too much time! But if you do choose to read a bit on the link, start with Parts 2 and 3 rather than begin reading at the beginning. It's so very complicated at the beginning as it tries to relay the function and meaning of God and the various hierarchies!
www.ubook.org/upapers/ubtoc.html
The I Ching entered my life around the same time as the U Book and the wisdom in that Book of Changes added to my understanding of the subconscious and symbolism.
And of course other books influenced me after that! Ruth Montgomery's series literally fell into my life when I was meandering in a used bookstore in the late 80's. And with that, came a Seth book.
Readings on UFO's influenced me as well, like Communion by Whitley Streiber and his next two, alien abduction studies by John Mack, and a couple of others. I need to get Bud Hopkins's latest!
The most impact, since reading the U Book, however, was the consuming of NDE books and studies! Bettie Eadie, Dannion Brinkley, and Dr. Melvin Morse and others really opened a spiritual/psychic window for me, too!
I read about angels! 3 books!
I read about psychics and read their books! Rosemary Altea, James Van Praag and Sylvia Browne truly impressed me with their interpretations of life and the after life. Recently read Dr. Gary Schwartz The Afterlife Experiments and that was impressive, too.
And Robert Peralta's book The Divine Architect was a great summing-it-all-up kind of recent read.
Along the way, I studied English and American literature, which always stimulates philosophy as well.
And how could I forget, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet and the Dalai Lama's Ethics for a New Millennium?
Read a book on the Dead Sea Scrolls and one on the Nag Hammadi scrolls, too. And of course, Gary Zukov came unto the scene, too!
When the net came into being, I was off and running again reading more on each subject and then finding the truth about so many other areas as well!
I also used to read OMNI magazine and was always interested in science, from a layperson's point of view, but I did study Anatomy and Physiology in college at one point -- worked on a cadaver, too. Also have a small Celestron telescope and at one time joined the local astronomy club! My Dh and I actually SAW the moons of Saturn on our little telescope one summer night a couple of year's back! The moons of Jupiter and nebula are easy, but the moons of Saturn were a real treat!
So it seems, you just can't learn about EVERYTHING in one lifetime, does it?
My mind was curious and still is, as we all travel together in these intense times!
Of course we can read books and put them down. Or we can read books and process them, make them ours, compare them to other truths, sift the truths from all of them and integrate all of the truths in one big cosmology! I have found it easy to integrate many of these various truths within my mind and heart. I don't know why it was so easy, but it is. I know a gal who has read many of the same books I have read, but she didn't learn anything from them. Somehow, the knowledge, the wisdom, did not sink in, the philosophies didn't "take" and she still roams, addicted to other substances besides truth. I just noticed, that's all, not judging, but "seeing" and it's all OK. I ask, when I read, that my spirit and my mind process in order to discern and retain that which is for the highest good and for my edification and thus for those around me.
Peace and love,
BC